I mean, really - how the hell did he get the ricin in a stevia packet? Even if he made the packet himself - how?

Laser printer, 18 pound bond (or 20 pound basic laser printer paper. Who pays that much attention to their sugar packet? besides me, I guess. you could do it with a white paper towel, actually, although that might be harder to laser print onto), scissors, white glue, 3 minutes assembly, 30 minutes drying time. Who looks that closely at their sweetener packet?

Walk in, knowing which table she likes. Take out the stevia packets in that thingy, leave just the one. Lurk nearby. Watch as plan unfolds.

Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:51 amPosts: 5877Location: United States of New England

i feel like if he was able to make that crazy machine gun thing that popped out of his trunk via car fob remote and all the other wacky things he made throughout the show getting the ricin in the stevia packet was probably a cake walk for him

yeah, i don't think jesse has to run. chances are, the nazis might not have destroyed walt's phone confession. or jesse's videotape. i doubt the authorities are going to be bugging him at all. (even if they don't find the evidence.) walt wrapped it up pretty solidly.

what i am wondering though is... who called the cops at the end? i guess jesse? but i don't think jesse really knew exactly where they were. i guess lydia, since she knew she was forked anyway.

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Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:51 amPosts: 5877Location: United States of New England

i asked my husband the same thing. i was like "the cops just HAPPEN to show up?" but he said the same thing. lots of gunfire, etcim not sure we ever saw where the barracks were in relation to the rest of the world

Isolated or not, a light machine gun (an M60-- you don't want to see a _heavy_ machine gun!) firing at 600 rounds per minute for the time it takes to empty a box of ammo is going to be LOUD and is going to attract a lot of attention, even to the people who live downwind from the meth nazi compound. (That's 200 rounds, I believe, and before anyone asks, yes, NATO 7.62 at that range would go through a car's bodywork and plywood siding and drywall without much trouble at all. Plus after the first time around, there's not much sheet metal left and it's just plywood and drywall and meth nazis to slow down the rounds.)

"Breaking Bad is the first show that I can think of, an hour-long drama, a continuous story, where everything that happens in the plot is an extension of the central premise."

...so yeah. There's no B-plot and no side quests. A man makes a decision; that decision leads to everything else that happens. Pretty interesting. (Compare to The Wire, where each episode could have maybe 15 or 20 different plot threads wound through it...)